Staff AI Software Engineer

Are you ready to lead the next wave of advancements in AI & location tech?

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help us build production-ready AI products for TomTom. The work is full-stack, covering everything from new feature development to infrastructure and client integration. You’ll work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment that values agility and real results, enabling you to lead from the front in building location capabilities for the age of AI.

Ready to make a real difference? Let’s get started!

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership, guide complex discussions, and facilitate team alignment
• Champion a culture of continuous innovation, growth and collaboration by mentoring and leading by example
• Turn short-term R&D projects into real-world impact in our products by vetting new tech, potential suppliers and product opportunities
• Design the web and automotive client integrations that surface the AI capabilities in our customer-facing TomTom products
• Elevate the technical capabilities of the team, including AI infrastructure, agent evaluations, LLM monitoring, fine-tuning, prompt engineering and CI/CD practices

What You’ll Need

• Educational background in Computer Science or a related field
• Professional experience: 7+ years in Software Engineering roles
• Demonstrated proficiency and leadership in developing and deploying algorithms to solve practical challenges
• Expertise in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and common GenAI frameworks, standards and libraries
• Scalability & performance: Familiarity with large-scale systems and tools
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to cross-functional teams effectively
• Tech stack familiarity: Working knowledge of Git, Docker, Kubernetes, different types of APIs, data processing tools, and cloud platforms (Azure preferred)

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package
• Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning
• Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities
• Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. TomTom’ers come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location
• Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance
• Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping
• Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday
• Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world
• Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!

Meet your team

We’re Search, a product unit within TomTom’s Location Technology Products technical unit. We develop our Search APIs, integrated into other TomTom products and used by TomTom Automotive and Enterprise to provide businesses with the technologies they need to build next-generation location experiences. Joining our team, you will use your ambition and expertise to solve complex problems and work with big data to positively impact lives on a global scale.

At TomTom, you’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.

Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.

Choose to lead

At TomTom, being a leader is a choice anyone can make. Unlock your potential and bridge the gap between aspiration and reality.

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